Peacemakers do not avoid conflict.

Peacemakers do not avoid conflict. They do their best to resolve it by understanding each angle and encouraging cooperation.
​Avoiding conflict is not always the answer or solution. Avoiding conflict can create a winner and a loser and often results in resentment. If you learn to give up what you want in a relationship to avoid conflict and bad behavior from another person, then it will be difficult to feel secure attachment with them. You risk losing the connection in the relationship and love can erode into depression, anxiety, and resentment that gets worse with time.  Peace and connection come to relationships that are grounded in trust, openness of desires, continuity of communication especially when you disagree or have conflicting needs. Sometimes the conflict must hang out calmly for awhile until resolutions can be discovered.  It can take time and effort. Giving in to another or manipulating another to give in to your demands destroys trust.  It’s not peace.